\n Hot on the heels of the massively successful UEFA Women\u2019s Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland comes another major sporting event \u2013 the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2025, hosted in England.\n <\/p>\n
France – ranked number four in the world behind England, New Zealand and Canada – open their bid for a first-ever title at Sandy Park, in Exeter, south-west England, on Saturday August 23rd against Six Nations rivals Italy, a day after England for the title kick off proceedings against USA in Sunderland.<\/p>\n
Reigning champions New Zealand begin the defence of their title against Spain in York on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The final, at the Allianz Stadium (aka Twickenham for more traditional readers) in London on September 27th, is already an 82,000-seat sell-out, meaning it will be the best-attended women\u2019s rugby union match in history.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, more than 40,000 tickets have been sold for the opening match at the Stadium of Light on Friday, with World Rugby expecting that figure to be closer to 50,000 before the match gets under way.<\/p>\n
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If you\u2019re not one of those lucky enough to hold one or more of the 375,000 or so tickets that have been sold for matches at the tournament, and intend to watch the action on TV in France, here\u2019s where \u2013 and when \u2013 the matches will be broadcast. <\/p>\n
No Fan Zones are planned at this stage, but that might change if Ga\u00eblle Mignot and David Ortiz\u2019s charges get to the final. For now, though, your best bet for a communal fan experience watching the tournament is to catch games in a bar or caf\u00e9, or arrange your own party.<\/p>\n
In good news, most of the matches will be shown on free-to-air terrestrial TV in France, shared between France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions (via France 2 and France 3) and TF1 plus its sister channels TMC and TFX, although some of the pool stage games are on the streaming channel TF1+.<\/p>\n
For fans of Les Bleues, the three pool-phase matches that matter are:<\/p>\n
Saturday, August 23rd:<\/b> France v Italy \u2013 9.15pm (all times are French time) on TF1\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday, August 31st:<\/b> France v Brazil \u2013 5.45pm France 2<\/p>\n
Sunday, September 7th:<\/b> France v South Africa \u2013 5.45pm France 2<\/p>\n
The full pool phase coverage (broadcasts begin 10 minutes before the shown kick-off times) is as follows:<\/p>\n
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Friday, August 22nd<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool A) England v USA \u2013 8.30pm France 3<\/p>\n
Saturday, August 23rd<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool A) Australia v Samoa \u2013 1pm TMC and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool B) Scotland v Wales \u2013 3.45pm France 2<\/p>\n
(Pool B) Canada v Fiji \u2013 6.30pm TMC and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool D) France v Italy \u2013 9.15pm TF1 and TF1+<\/p>\n
Sunday, August 24th<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool C) Ireland v Japan \u2013 1pm France 3<\/p>\n
(Pool D) South Africa v Brazil \u2013 3.45pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool C) New Zealand v Spain \u2013 6.30pm TMC and TF1+<\/p>\n
Saturday, August 30th<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool B)\u00a0 Canada v Wales \u2013 1pm France 3<\/p>\n
(Pool B)\u00a0 Scotland v Fiji \u2013 3.45pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool A)\u00a0 England v Samoa \u2013 6pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool A) USA v Australia \u2013 8.30pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
Sunday, August 31st\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool C) Ireland v Spain \u2013 1pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool C) New Zealand v Japan \u2013 3pm France 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Pool D) Italy v South Africa \u2013 4.30pm TF1<\/p>\n
(Pool D) France v Brazil \u2013 5.45pm France 2<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 6th<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool B) Canada v Scotland \u2013 1pm France 3<\/p>\n
(Pool A) USA v Samoa \u2013 2.30pm TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool B) Wales v Fiji \u2013 3.45pm TMC and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool A) England v Australia \u2013 6pm TMC and TF1+<\/p>\n
Sunday, September 7th<\/b><\/p>\n
(Pool C) Japan v Spain \u2013 1pm TFX and TF1+<\/p>\n
(Pool D) Italy v Brazil \u2013 3pm TFX and TF11<\/p>\n
(Pool C) New Zealand v Ireland \u2013 3.45pm France 3<\/p>\n
(Pool D) France v South Africa \u2013 5.45pm France 2<\/p>\n
TV schedules for the knockout phase will be based on pool-phase results and qualifiers, so have yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n
But if France finish top of Pool D \u2013 which is far from guaranteed with the always-difficult Italy and fast-improving South Africa in their way \u2013 they will play in quarter-final 3. If they finish second, they will play in quarter-final 1.<\/p>\n
The knockout phase fixtures are as follows.<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 13th<\/b><\/p>\n
Quarter-final 1: Winner Pool C v Second Pool D \u2013 2pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Quarter-final 2: Winner Pool B v Second Pool A \u2013 5pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Sunday, September 14th<\/b><\/p>\n
Quarter-final 3: Winner Pool D v Second Pool C \u2013 2pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Quarter-final 4: Winner Pool A v Second Pool B \u2013 5pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Friday, September 19th<\/b><\/p>\n
Semi-final 1: Winner Quarter-final 1 v Winner Quarter-final 2 \u2013 8pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 20th<\/b><\/p>\n
Semi-final 2: Winner Quarter-final 3 v Winner Quarter-final 4 \u2013 8pm France TV \/ TF1<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 27th<\/b><\/p>\n
Bronze final: Loser semi-final 1 v Loser semi-final 2 \u2013 1.30pm TF1<\/p>\n
Final: Winner semi-final 1 v Winner semi-final 2 \u2013 5pm TF1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot on the heels of the massively successful UEFA Women\u2019s Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland comes another major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-359688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061702379987743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}